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Huijuan Fu; Yangcai Xiao; Isaac Kofi Mensah; Rui Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The nation's explosive growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is likely to lead to low effectiveness of MOOCs, therefore, it is necessary to promote the high-quality and long-term development of MOOCs through understanding learner satisfaction. The present research adopted the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to derive factors affecting…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, MOOCs, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Design
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Jiyoung Kim; Anne Leftwich; Daniel Castner – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Many K-12 computer science (CS) education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels have recently started to focus on engaging the young children. Although most CS education research has focused on the secondary level, only minimal research has explored how computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) can be taught in elementary…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Sajjanhar, Atul; Faulkner, Julie – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
In this study, we gauge the perceptions of novice computer programmers about Second Life (SL) as a digital learning environment for concept understanding in computer programming. SL is chosen as the learning environment because it offers, within a constructivist frame, the use of learner-centered pedagogies for designing curriculum. We adopt a…
Descriptors: Novices, Programming, Computer Simulation, Internet
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Ng, Davy Tsz Kit; Lee, Min; Tan, Roy Jun Yi; Hu, Xiao; Downie, J. Stephen; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
In recent years, with the popularity of AI technologies in our everyday life, researchers have begun to discuss an emerging term "AI literacy". However, there is a lack of review to understand how AI teaching and learning (AITL) research looks like over the past two decades to provide the research basis for AI literacy education. To…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Literacy Education
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Alhamami, Munassir – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The policy--English as a medium of instruction (EMI)--in computing education plays an important role in achieving the outcomes of computer science programs. This study examines the effects of Saudi Arabia's English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy in undergraduate computer science programs at public universities. Study data was collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Computer Science Education
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Ivanova, E. M.; Vishnekov, A. V. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The problem of students' motivation to learn an ever-increasing amount of knowledge (especially in the field of information and communication technologies) is more relevant than ever. This problem can be solved on the basis of students' active involvement in the educational process. This paper surveys modern approaches to motivate students to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Student Motivation, Active Learning, Integrated Learning Systems
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Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander; Theodorou, Tryfon L.; Violettas, George E.; Xinogalos, Stelios – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
The tremendous popularity of mobile computing and Android in particular has attracted millions of developers who see opportunities for building their own start-ups. As a consequence Computer Science students express an increasing interest into the related technology of Java development for Android applications. Android projects are complex by…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Software, Computer Science Education